Civic Finance

Budgets, levies, debt, fund balance and fiscal-stress data for local governments and school districts, straight from state filings.

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Town of Duanesburg

Town · Schenectady County · Capital Region · OSC municipal code 420324200000

Population 6,020 (Census estimate 2025; 2020 base 5,873) popest-2025 ⓘ · Meeting coverage: documents

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Recurring deficits our calculation

General fund spending (incl. transfers out) exceeded revenues (incl. transfers in) in 2023, 2024, and operating funds overall spent more than they took in in 2023, 2024, 2025 (last 3 AFR years). Planned use of fund balance can cause this; check the adopted budgets.

Source: afr-2023 ⓘ · afr-2024 ⓘ

Levy above tax cap

OSC tax cap filings: proposed levy exceeded the computed levy limit for FY 2024 (by $20,955, override planned). Exceeding the limit requires a local law override (60% of the governing body).

Source: taxcap ⓘ

Compared with Capital Region towns

IndicatorTown of DuanesburgPeer medianPercentilePeersBasis
Operating spending per capita$797$91338th101AFR 2025, operating funds (our calc)
Property tax per capita$403$40949th101AFR 2025 real property taxes (our calc)
Debt per capita$980$31683rd73AFR 2025 debt detail, year-end outstanding
Debt service % of operating spending9.3%2.4%93rd101AFR 2025 (our calc)
State aid % of operating revenue12.3%12.6%47th101AFR 2025 (our calc)
Sales tax % of operating revenue18%22.6%44th101AFR 2025 (our calc)
Fund balance ratio (OSC FSMS)21.4%48.1%17th96OSC FSMS FY2025
Operating spending growth over 5 AFR years30.1%26.7%58th100AFR 2021–2025 (our calc)
Levy growth36.3%13.2%89th1012021–2026 OSC tax tables
FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)11.73.389th88OSC FSMS FY2025

Percentile = share of same-class peers in the region with a lower value. A high or low percentile is context, not a judgment. Sales tax for towns and villages is county distribution revenue.

Five-year picture

Operating funds: revenue vs. spending RevenueSpending
$0k$1.2M$2.4M$3.6M$4.8M2019202020212022202320242025Revenue 2019: $3.4MRevenue 2020: $3.1MRevenue 2021: $3.5MRevenue 2022: $4.1MRevenue 2023: $3.8MRevenue 2024: $4.6MRevenue 2025: $4.4MSpending 2019: $3.1MSpending 2020: $3.6MSpending 2021: $3.7MSpending 2022: $3.9MSpending 2023: $4.0MSpending 2024: $4.6MSpending 2025: $4.8M

Our calculation from OSC AFR account data: all funds except custodial (T*), capital projects (H), fixed-asset (K) and long-term debt (W) groups, excluding interfund transfers and debt proceeds.

General fund surplus / deficit General fund result (incl. transfers)
$-339k$-250k$-160k$-70k$20k2019202020212022202320242025General fund result (incl. transfers) 2019: $9kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2020: $-339kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2021: $-51kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2022: $-104kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2023: $-59kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2024: $-50kGeneral fund result (incl. transfers) 2025: $20k

OSC AFR, fund A, revenues and other sources minus expenditures and other uses (our calculation). Planned use of fund balance appears as a deficit.

Debt Debt outstandingDebt service
$0k$1.8M$3.7M$5.5M$7.4M2019202020212022202320242025Debt outstanding 2019: $6.7MDebt outstanding 2020: $6.4MDebt outstanding 2021: $6.0MDebt outstanding 2022: $7.4MDebt outstanding 2023: $6.9MDebt outstanding 2024: $6.3MDebt outstanding 2025: $5.9MDebt service 2019: $329kDebt service 2020: $367kDebt service 2021: $367kDebt service 2022: $371kDebt service 2023: $505kDebt service 2024: $364kDebt service 2025: $448k

Year-end debt outstanding (OSC AFR debt detail) and debt service expenditures (OSC AFR).

Property tax levy (OSC tax tables) Total levy
$0k$678k$1.4M$2.0M$2.7M202120222023202420252026Total levy 2021: $2.0MTotal levy 2022: $2.1MTotal levy 2023: $2.3MTotal levy 2024: $2.4MTotal levy 2025: $2.4MTotal levy 2026: $2.7M

Levy as reported in OSC's annual tax tables for the year shown.

OSC FSMS fund balance ratio
FY202317.4%FY202417.6%FY202521.4%

Assigned + unassigned general fund balance ÷ gross expenditures, as computed by OSC.

OSC FSMS fiscal stress score (higher = more stress)
FY20196.7 No DesignationFY20206.7 No DesignationFY20218.3 No DesignationFY20228.3 No DesignationFY20238.3 No DesignationFY20248.3 No DesignationFY202511.7 No Designation

OSC's own scores and designations. 'Not filed' rows mean the AFR was not filed in time to be scored.

Annual Financial Report series

YearOperating revenueOperating spendingGF revenue (incl. transfers)GF spending (incl. transfers)Property taxSales taxState aidDebt serviceDebt outstandingSource
2019 (FYE 2019-12-31)$3,425,303$3,096,772$795,919$786,850$1,913,595$308,316$574,657$329,000$6,743,484afr-2019 ⓘ · debt-2019 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2020 (FYE 2020-12-31)$3,121,629$3,611,789$608,057$947,544$1,986,079$496,846$308,804$366,610$6,376,874afr-2020 ⓘ · debt-2020 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2021 (FYE 2021-12-31)$3,517,638$3,686,802$1,241,768$1,292,831$2,167,945$573,578$410,117$366,610$6,010,264afr-2021 ⓘ · debt-2021 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2022 (FYE 2022-12-31)$4,052,170$3,903,046$1,155,268$1,259,051$2,145,593$745,533$628,886$371,202$7,376,468afr-2022 ⓘ · debt-2022 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2023 (FYE 2023-12-31)$3,783,135$3,968,648$1,266,991$1,326,154$2,320,888$765,855$237,153$504,666$6,890,564afr-2023 ⓘ · debt-2023 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2024 (FYE 2024-12-31)$4,570,962$4,643,861$1,980,127$2,030,369$2,396,509$773,491$450,325$364,469$6,312,776afr-2024 ⓘ · debt-2024 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30
2025 (FYE 2025-12-31)$4,403,868$4,795,045$1,758,687$1,738,716$2,424,227$791,219$543,450$447,830$5,898,233afr-2025 ⓘ · debt-2025 ⓘ
OSC snapshot 2026-09-30

Operating and property-tax figures are our sums of OSC account-level data (independent calculation, not OSC's own totals); GF = general fund (A).

Tax cap filings (OSC)

Fiscal yearPrior levyProposed levyLevy limitLimit minus proposedLevy growthOverride planned
2019$1,625,025$1,724,084$1,658,189$-65,8956.1%Yes
2020$1,724,084$1,750,648$1,760,676$10,0281.5%No
2021$1,750,648$2,103,789$1,803,632$-300,15720.2%Yes
2022$2,399,432$2,575,919$2,478,013$-97,9067.4%Yes
2023$2,528,673$2,528,673$2,619,383$90,7100%No
2024$2,528,673$2,683,911$2,662,956$-20,9556.1%Yes
2025$2,783,127$2,793,089$2,854,273$61,1840.4%No
2026$2,793,089$2,373,512$2,930,000$556,488-15%No

Source: taxcap ⓘ, snapshot 10/09/2026. Highlighted rows: proposed levy above the computed limit. Filings are as submitted to OSC before budget adoption; a later fiscal year that has not been filed yet does not appear.

OSC Fiscal Stress Monitoring System

FYStress designationFiscal scoreEnvironmental ratingEnv. scoreSource
2019No Designation6.7No Designation23.3fsms-muni-2019 ⓘ
2020No Designation6.7No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2020 ⓘ
2021No Designation8.3No Designation13.3fsms-muni-2021 ⓘ
2022No Designation8.3No Designation10fsms-muni-2022 ⓘ
2023No Designation8.3No Designation10fsms-muni-2023 ⓘ
2024No Designation8.3No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2024 ⓘ
2025No Designation11.7No Designation16.7fsms-muni-2025 ⓘ

FSMS fund balance (Indicator 1): FY2023 17.4% ($286,745 of $1,650,175) fsms-ind1-muni-2023 ⓘ · FY2024 17.6% ($408,598 of $2,320,159) fsms-ind1-muni-2024 ⓘ · FY2025 21.4% ($451,116 of $2,108,852) fsms-ind1-muni-2025 ⓘ

OSC audits (1)

Source: osc-audits ⓘ. Matched by entity name in the report title.

In meetings

Context only. These links point to meetings where budget, levy, fund balance, debt or audits came up; they are not used in any figure above.

Budget and audit moments in meeting transcripts (1 meetings)

Machine transcripts; listen before citing. Meeting Insights library

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